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Ms. Maria Eitel has been the President of the Nike Foundation of Nike Inc. She served as the Vice President and Senior Advisor for Corporate Responsibility at Nike Inc. Ms. Eitel served as the European Corporate Affairs Group Manager for Microsoft Corporation in Paris; as a Director of Public Affairs for Microsoft Corp. for Public Broadcasting; and as a Senior Manager of Communications and Community Relations at MCI Communications Corp. From 1989 to 1992, she served ... in the White House as the Deputy Director of Media Relations and later as a Special Assistant to the President for Media Affairs, and was an official spokesperson for the President. Ms. Eitel is a former Member of the National Academy of Sciences committee in monitoring international labor standards. Ms. Eitel has been a Director of Safeco Corp. since August 11, 2005. She sits on the Board of Trustees of the Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington. Ms. Eitel serves as a Member of Advisory Council at Acumen Fund and Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also served as a Director of Portland General Electric Co. since July 8, 2004. Ms. Eitel was instrumental in forming and co-manages Nike's Corporate Responsibility Committee of the Board of Directors and has also been responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of Nike's environmental sustainability policy. Ms. Eitel works at Nike's Beaverton headquarters and resides in Seattle. Ms. Eitel received a B.A. in Communications and French from McGill University in 1983 and an M.S. in Foreign Service and International Developing Economies from Georgetown University in 1988.

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